How to Install WordPress From Your cPanel Using Softaculous

This article will give you a step by step guide on how to install WordPress from your cPanel using Softaculous.

Sign into your cPanel and follow these steps:

1) Scroll down to Software/Services and click Softaculous

2) Scroll down to Blogs. Find the WordPress link and click on it

3) Click Install

4) Fill out all of the boxes. For In Directory type the name of a new directory you would like created. By default, the box will be left blank to install the software into your main directory. When you are finished, click Install.

5) You will then get a confirmation page of your installation

This concludes how to install WordPress from your cPanel using Softaculous.

28 Comments on How to Install WordPress From Your cPanel Using Softaculous

After the above installation is done, where do you go from here? Is there a step by step process that will help in order to get the themes/template installed and have you on your way to completing your site?

In which directory did you install WordPress in? On your homepage I am only seeing a Coming Soon page. However, what you describe could be caused by several things such as DNS propagation (Does it work for you now?).

If you’re still having issues, please feel free to reach out to our support department at support [at] arvixe.com (replace [at] with @). They should be able to assist you.

Why is that when I leave the blank, I mean making the box empty, I could not see my url online. But when I leave the there as the default, its taking me to http://springnotes.net/wp? I want it to be shown as http://springnotes.net only. What should I do?

Leaving the folder option completely blank will install WordPress in your root directory. I might suggest going to the “current installations” (icon in the upper right of softaculous) and uninstall all existing copies of WP, and maybe manually delete any stray folders that are leftover. You might be having some kind of strange “interference” from an old installation of WP if you have tried it once or twice already.

I downloaded wordpress version 3.6.1 software purposely to use some plugins therein particularly those that are not found in the dashboard of wordpress.com. Is this the software I’m going to install here and again will there be provision for plugins?

Do you mean you want to install plugins that do not come with WordPress? That is fine to do with Arvixe. We do recommend that you verify the creator of the plug-ins to make sure they are trust-worthy through.

After Step 1, I get directly to this error message:
Site error: the file /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous/enduser/inc.php requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_lin_5.4.so to be installed by the website operator. If you are the website operator please use the ionCube Loader Wizard to assist with installation.Child failed to make LIVEAPI connection to cPanel.

Hi, The information is sent in the sign-up e-mail. You can also access the link through your billing panel. http://billing.arvixe.com/ Our Support team can also provide you the information if you start a live chat.

I want maindomain.com to display my wordpress blog, but I want to install wordpress in a subdirectory of maindomain.com. I do NOT want the URL to be maindomain.com/subdirectory ONLY maindomain.com, but I want the files to live in maindomain.com/subdirectory. How do I do that?

After reading thru, still not sure what to put in the box for “In Directory”.
It already has “wp” in there, but it says to either leave blank or put dir in the box.
As someone else mentioned…I don’t want the /wp extension to show when they go to my site…so I want to set it up right the first time. (Just need a simple answer that a non techie newbie would understand.) Thanks